One Premium Account for the Whole Family

This issue comes up frequently in geocaching:  How can a "Basic Member" (BM) log a "Premium Member Only" (PMO) cache that they found while accompanied by a "Premium Member" (PM)?  It is really very simple.  Just follow these steps...

1- The PM needs to log into geocaching.com, bring up the PMO cache listing, and write their own log.
2- After the PM has entered the log, they should select "Log your Visit" from the listing's menu as if they were going to write another log.
3- Click on the "Log Out" link at the top right corner of the webpage.  This will bring up the log in screen.
4- Enter the BM's log in information and click the log in button.  This will return you to the write log page.
5- The BM can now select the log type and enter a log just like they can do with any other cache.

Tip- If you set up your browser (FireFox is the best) to store your usernames and passwords, all you need to do is double-click on the username field of the login screen.  It will pop up a list of all the registered usernames you have on your computer and you only need to pick one from the list.  The password will be entered automatically and you just need to click the log in button.

The whole process of switching from the PM to the BM on the write log page takes 6 mouse clicks and about 15 seconds on a high-speed connection.  It is exceedingly painless and lets each member of the family enter their own logs on every cache that you've found together.

Since it is only a small fraction of the caches that are listed as PMO, you will only need to use this logging method on rare occasions.